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Malgorzata Szymankiewicz - Reflecting View

Galeria Miejska bwa w Bydgoszczy

The cycle of works created as a part of the REFLECTING VIEW exhibition

is related to public space and addresses the problem of overproduction of images in the contemporary visual culture. Her object of interest is the material proofs of advertising and marketing activities in the form of boards, display cases, lightboxes and banners. Using post-painting imaging methods, Szymankiewicz processed them, creating objects that work mainly through their rhythm, colour and texture. Examining the language of advertising – which imposes a specific way of seeing and manipulating viewer/consumer – the artist was looking for the possibility of creating abstract forms and objects capable of generating new meanings.

REFLECTING VIEW is yet another project in which Szymankiewicz refers to the issue of creators getting entangled in the mechanisms of economy that determine the functioning of the functioning of the art market and advertising market. The artist emphasises the unconscious activities which are reflected not only in the ways the works are presented, but also in the process of building the position of young creators.

ART ROTTERDAM 2017

Bastian Börsig, Sophia Pompéry, Malgorzata Szymankiewicz

"Reflection": This year’s presentation is grouped around the subject of reflection with its two meanings: On one hand as an intellectual process during the creation of art – What is abstraction? What can painting be today? etc. – and on the other hand as a simple physical phenomenon that has fascinated mankind all along.

Claas Gutsche @ Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Quedlinburg

Cut and Close

Malgorzata Szymankiewizc @ ZAMEK Cultural Center Poznan

#library

27.01.2017 – 28.02.2017

What is the role of the library today? After
all, we no longer believe that all available knowledge of the world can be
gathered in one place. Are books and the vision of the world they convey
becoming obsolete? Why does an electronic library have more borrowers than a traditional one?

The exhibition #library asks questions about the status and the transformations of library from a present-day perspective. The hashtag
attached to the title is both a sign of the times and a play on that signifier
which enables grouping information; in a sense, it is a shelf mark thanks to
which one can easily find their bearings amidst virtual resources.

Miklos Gaál @ Galleria Heino, Finland

The Right Word

The work of this solo show are grouped around the key pieces of the exhibition: a slide show comprising a selection of photographs, notes and sketches. In the simplest possible terms, the isolated series of scenarios and observations it contains draw the viewer’s attention towards their shape, colour and the ever-shifting light reflected upon them. It deals with a fascination similar to what all artists will have experienced: the desire to engage in immediate and unadulterated observation of the relationship between material objects and their manifestations. The exhibition title was inspired by the author Gustave Flaubert’s description of his own literary working method.

Malgorzata Szymankiewicz @ Miejsce Projektów Zachęty

Łysa Góra Experiment — 50 Years Later

The exhibition is conceived as a voice in the discussion about the artistic heritage of the factories and manufactories of the communist era. The core of the exhibition will be the few surviving works of Krzysztof and Julian Henisz — participants and co-creators of one of the most interesting phenomena in Polish applied art of the 1960’s, the so called ‘Łysa Góra experiment’. The experiment, conducted in Łysa Góra between 1959–1968, has resulted in a new kind of ‘painting-like’ architectural decoration consisting of large ceramic plates. By simplifying the technology and reducing the costs of creating such monumental colorful decorations both outside and inside buildings, it changed the appearance of Polish cities in the sixties. Preserved work by Henisz and son (projects, posters) and a short film about their activities will be complemented by the work of contemporary artists of the young and middle generation. Those works will be an interpretation of the legacy of the artistic Cooperative Kamionka from Łysa Góra, where the experiment took place, they will take up the issue of the presence of color in urban space, and address the question of what remained of the experiment: an abandoned, and indebted ceramics manufacture and dilapidated decorations from the time of its splendor; the disappointment of the former workers of the manufacture should also be mentioned here. Artists: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Dominik Lejman, Paweł Olszczański, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Marek Raczkowski and Małgorzata Szymankiewicz

Erwin Olaf @ Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland

In Search of the Present

In Search of the Present turns the gaze towards current issues that are shaping art and society at large and encourages viewers to participate in the public debate. With its themes, The New Me, Digital Mankind and Nature Kingdom, the exhibition explores the nature of human beings that inhabit a global digital world and their relationship to the environment, themselves and other human beings. The New Me theme described how we build ourselves and our identities in present age by using even quite extreme methods. The human being has become stronger as and operator and factor than ever before. Digital Mankind is a theme that discusses digitalisation and how it changes not only the individual but the entire humankind; we are on the verge of a major shift, which will change the way we think and act. Nature Kingdom talks about how desperately the humankind is striving to contain nature and the animal kingdom, alas with no success.

The first edition of the exhibition series explores the nature of human beings that inhabit a global digital world and their relationship to the environment, themselves and other human beings.